A while ago my mom called me on the phone and told me to call my dad quickly. I didnt notice it then but her voice sounded weak. My dad came and gave her water. She said that it felt like a large pain started in the body that went into her chest. She said she felt like all the air in her left her body. She said all her strength in her ledt and she couldnt stand

I am 24, never had a full time job with benefits, I am about to get my certificate as a central sterile supply tech, and I am a virgin. I feel like a failure because my family thinks I should have a full time job by now. I am worthless and wonder why my mom didn't just abort me. Maybe if I had a degree by now than they would not complain. I didn't want to go to school for something useless

So I am a 16 year old girl and I live with my parents. My dad has become really weird about me ALWAYS leaving my door open, and I hate it. He gets really mad when I shut my door, and I have no idea why! I have never done anything seriously bad or anything. I am a very private person, and I get so uncomfortable when I have to leave my door open. I can t get myself to practice guitar, draw, do any of my hobbies, or even do my homework. It s crippling me. When I have to leave my door open, all I can seem to do all day is sit in the corner and go on my phone. How do I get used to it? How can I convince my dad I m not untrustworthy? I m so frustrated, I wanted to use this summer to better my art and music skills, but I can t now.

We adopted our daughter when she was 5. She has no problem making friends, but gets into fights with them. Her temper can be a bit unexpected and I've witnessed it at home too. No matter how many strategies I've come up with, this won't stop. The doctor says she's "typical" for her age, aside from that. At first, I thought it was acting out, needed more discipline and patience from adults. Then a few people pointed out it could have to do with being adopted at 5 years old from a CROWDED orphanage. She lacked affection and nurturing during the first crucial 5 years of her life - but most of her friends received love and attention from the day they were born. I've researched and it does say that this can alter a child's brain. Sympathy, attachment/bonding issues, over-sensitive and fear of losing people are apparently common things.

Before I begin she has high functioning autism and ADHD. High functioning autism is when a kid with autism can still do most things normal people can do but still have weird behaviors and usually retardation (not in a rude way just means they have a lower IQ then normal). She also has retardation. I'm 14 and she is 11. She was always very rude to me. She calls me names for no reason sometimes. She gets angry for no reason sometimes like today, I went outside in the rain with her to make here happy and I told her to put her hood up so she wouldn't get her hair soaked but she didn't listen and got rude and shouted at me "your so rude I dont need to!" I didn't even say anything rude and I didn't shout at her. I didn't want to be around her so I told her to go away. Then she threw rocks at me while I was playing in the puddle and it was only because I told her to go away?! WTF?! I don't understand all I do is be nice to her . The worst thing she does is when we're out in public say shopping or going to the park, I do something mildly upsetting, like I will run from her so she can chase me but she screams at me rudely and says im trying to leave her wth! or we're at the supermarket and I tell her to put away a bouncy ball she yells at me loudly infront of everyone. and this ALWAYS happens it never fails. I think my mom needs to actually ground her. idk why but my moms solution is to yell and go on long rants for both us she never grounds us and its bad bc it doesn't work!

My teen spent $45 outta $60 on giftcards last night online. I don't know what to do. She's headed off to a summer program where she will need her debit card. She can't seem to control the amount of money she spends. What do I do? I worry she's talking to pychics again. She claims she does that because she is lonely and has no friends (most of her friends have been blowing her off).

My little brother has a bad stutter he uses um and mispronounced words when speaking and is very impulsive he can get angry or frustrated and I don't know how I can help him he's eleven in sixth grade middle school but he's behind other kids socially on pen and paper he's really smart and good at work but we're always getting calls about fighting arguments he did go through sexual assault from a boy 5 years older but he was the same before then he's also epileptic and has suffered an episode when he was three but none since then

You go to the gas station around where I live and there are people there just loafing around. You will get gas while be harassed and intimidated by people who wants money or a lift. The people who wants a lift seems to be up to something rather than just wanting a lift. Random people getting gas from other stations will try to fight you or instigate a fight for no particular reason. What should I do about getting gas?

Dont ask me why dont say not too im very skinny barley any muscles im open to hair pulling and things

living in my own place. I have a decent job. I have a 24 year old wife. But we both don't feel ready to handle the responsibilities of being a parent yet (I don't want to use words that'll hurt her emotionally)

My husband and I have been married 3 years, together for 6. As soon as we got engaged, it felt like everyone (family, friends, coworkers) kept asking us when we were going to get pregnant. Now it has gotten to the point where both sides of the family are insisting we get pregnant, and saying things like: "you shouldn't wait so long", etc. We can't go to a single family event without be bombarded 10x by these statements. Problem is, I've suffered from severe depression since I was a teen and although I'm on medication and seeing therapy, I don't feel emotionally/mentally ready to raise another human being for several more years. My husband is supportive and agrees it is the wrong time for us. I'm just extremely private about my depression and don't want to mention it to our family or friends (they don't know). How else do I tell them to back off? Being financially prepared to have a child isn't the only important factor, but also being emotionally and mentally ready.

I can maintain my financially stability for now due to living at home with my parents, however I just feel wrong being unemployed after having a job for the last four years with student loan payments coming up fast. I make sure my dad eats throughout the day and take him to treatments, as well as seeing my grandmother and doing household things for her when I can. Should I try to balance a part time job as well? Opinions from those who have been in similar positions especially welcome.

I'm saving money to move out, I'm a recent college graduate. I don't have a whole lot of extra money to spend on food. I go grocery shopping once a week and buy things like fresh fruit, vegetables, turkey meat, baked chips, pancake mix, bread, eggs etc. I buy groceries for the household and also groceries for myself. Every single time i leave my juice, water, smoothie, whatever she drinks it. She cooked with my pancake mix when i bought her her own pancake mix and when i came downstairs the entire box was in the trash can. Listen i don't mind buying or giving her food but it's so inconsiderate to not even ask. I don't want to have to resort to buying fast food because i hate fast food. I love cooking, its my passion, and i also love that i can control what is in my food and the portion size. but this is what it might have to do. I really don't know what else to do. I have asked her repeatedly not to eat up all of my food and drink all of my drink but she still insists. It's putting a strain on me because i'm having to fork out extra cash on food. another thing, she doesn't even drink the entire bottle which is even a bigger waste of money. there's half drunken orange juice bottles all over the house. I would keep my juice in my purse or closet but there's no way i would be able to keep it cold. same thing with some foods, they have to be referigerated or else they go bad.

I'm currently 17 years old and have never done anything obscene such as watching porn or masturbating. So when my parents are always over my shoulder, it's extremely aggravating. I'm not allowed to lock my door on any circumstances besides if I'm changing and they refuse to knock when they want to come in. When I try to tell them that I have a right to some privacy, they say "Why are you so adamant on having privacy? It's because you're hiding something, right?" and that's that. My dad likes to search through my phone and ipad without my knowledge (I know this since I've walked in on him doing this). My parents even have my younger sister sneak in order to catch me off-guard to find out what I'm doing on the computer. If I spend longer than 15 minutes or so in the bathroom, my mom asks what I'm doing. I also have a male cousin who I text pretty often and when my mom found out, she told me stop because "it might turn inappropriate". This was probably the most degrading thing I've ever been told by my mom. There are plenty more instances but these are the ones that I have the biggest problem with. I've had depression and anxiety for about 6 years now which is probably why I'm jumpy and I feel like that's why they don't trust me but it still doesn't justify their constant hovering as if I'm a prime suspect in a murder case. They don't do any of this to my sister so it pisses me off that they think so high of her and so low of me. What can I say or do for them to quit it?

A couple of weeks ago, my sister was out at her friend's house one night, and my mom called her to come home. It was around 11pm, and for literally no reason, my sister loses it over the phone with her swearing at my mom, even though there was no logic in her getting angry. My mom only called to tell her to come home. Upon reaching home, my sister goes into my parents room and yells more at my mom. Again, for no reason. Another incident where, my mom came home one nght tired from work, and wanted to watch T.V. My sister completely turned the T.V down saying in an angry manner that she was going to sleep. My mom told her that she wanted to watch some shows since she's been at work all day. My sister argued back saying its 10pm at night and everyone is sleeping. Keep in mind, the T.V is downstairs while my sister's room is upstairs and my mom is doesn't even have the T.V loud, its just enough so she can hear it. She then asked if my mom wanted to fight, my mom said no. My sister then went upstairs. Another incident, where one day my mom went upstairs to my sister's room and tried to talk to her, but my sister just argued that my mom fights with everyone. Now my sister is acting all nice and booked the trip. My mom is going with it when I've told her to cancel it and tell her to behave properly, and not let her disrespect her like that, then enjoy a nice vacation with her and my mom's family. I told my mom I'll go with her, but for no reason she's decided to leave me behind. @choko_canyon, I did speak to her. She mentioned that she might take me, but she mentioned that you need a credit card or whatever to get your luggage onto the plane or something, which we can work to find a way around that since I have a my own card from previous employment. Either way, I'd rather have her take someone else than my sister. Actually, my mom's relationship with my sister is my business because she is my mom. There is blood relation in us, so therefore, she is my business.

I'll spare you fine people the gory details, but my bio dad was insanely abusive and terrible, and eventually made us have to flee of all the violent antics he was up to. I've obviously never been close to him because of this, though when I was younger, I tried really hard to forgive him before he proved to me he was unforgivable in a particularly rough instance when I was at his house for the first overnight stay since we left him. For background, my dad was the "suffocate you with gifts so you love me and forget that I beat you" sort of guy, so I had tons of stuff over at his house-- posters, action figures, a piggy bank with $80, a DS Lite, etc etc. Well, long story short, on my first overnight visit when I was about 9, he got drunk, nearly paralyzed me by falling on me, refused to drive me to the hospital because it turns out he wasn't supposed to be drinking per court order, and made my mom drive the two hours to pick me up and take me herself. I haven't been allowed over there since. I'm running out of room here. Basically, I want to get my stuff back-- it's been eight years, and I know chances are he's probably thrown it all away or given it to his "new kid", Zoe, but I would very much like to see my stuffed penguin, Mr. Flippers, again. Should I ask him if he still has the stuff, and by extent if I can have it, or should I just accept that my SS/HG team is going to bask in a never ending void until the end of time?

A few months ago my grandma had her third stroke and she was on life support in the hospital. I missed a week of school for a family emergency. I texted my friends, we are all 17 and in high school. I told them my grandma is in the hospital, I didn't tell them the gorey details but just that my grandma is in the hospital and if they could be there for me. I had six friends and I texted every single one and none of them replied. And I'm really confused, I dont understand why they would ignore me in such an awful moment in my life? I think it's so weird that they all ignored me and never ever replied back or texted me at all after that I texted them about my grandma. Like they were done being my friend because my grandma died. I think, how can someone ignore you when you are going through such an awful time? I don't expect them to cut off a hand but to say, "I'm so sorry. I will pray for her." Or whatever. Like that's all. Not ignore me... I think that's so messed up. Only one person replied which was this guy who liked me (I didn't know he liked me at the time. I thought we were friends). He was the only one who comforted me. After I went back to school I was done bein their friend. I didn't talk to them or hangout with them and it was crazy they never talked to me again either. And it's weird... before my grandma died they always texted me and always hangout with me. And then she dies and they just drop the friendship... I don't understand why and how could someone do that??

And you're a gay male and you're just here thinking.. WTF is wrong with these cúnts?